--- title: What is Reactive Programming? Beginner's Guide to... description: Learn about reactive programming, its benefits, and how it works using JavaScript/TypeScript within the Node.js environment. Explore the concepts of streams,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-reactive-programming-beginner-s-guide-to-writing-reactive-code-4quve91j3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What is Reactive Programming? Beginner's Guide to Writing Reactive Code | daily.dev og:description: Learn about reactive programming, its benefits, and how it works using JavaScript/TypeScript within the Node.js environment. Explore the concepts of streams,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-reactive-programming-beginner-s-guide-to-writing-reactive-code-4quve91j3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4qUve91J3.png og:image:alt: What is Reactive Programming? 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Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@fab978** · 0 upvotes > Great introduction **@darryl\_bayliss** · 0 upvotes > A nice introduction to reactive programming. 😃👍 > > I would add some of the tools suggested for certain languages seem outdated. For instance Kotlin developers tend to use coroutines which provides reactive programming. Swift also has the Combine framework. --- Tags: [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#typescript](https://daily.dev/tags/typescript), [#reactive-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/reactive-programming) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-reactive-programming-beginner-s-guide-to-writing-reactive-code-4quve91j3) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"What is Reactive Programming? 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Swift also has the Combine framework.","datePublished":"2024-03-23T11:10:52.011Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/4qUve91J3#c-lFk31medm","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Darryl Bayliss","url":"https://daily.dev/darryl_bayliss","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--sjYPSFcm--/f_auto/v1710873390/avatars/avatar_9WLnF9CyBShR0Mgwu0OcX"}}]} ```